The Magic Box

The Magic Box

1951 | 1h 48m | Drama | TV-G

Brief Synopsis

A successful photographer becomes obsessed with inventing a motion picture projector.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

John Boulting

CAST

Robert Donat

Margaret Johnston

Maria Schell

PRODUCERS

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WRITERS

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Opening scene in which the now elderly inventtor William Friese-Greene (Robert Donat) visits his long-estranged wife Edith (Margaret Johnston), open John and Roy Boulting's The Magic Box, 1951.
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